A PHOTOGRAPHIC JUBILEE

Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

A PHOTOGRAPHIC JUBILEE

It is not generally known (observes tho Home News) that the art of photography began early in the reign of Queen Victoria, and that the jubilee of the art ought to be celebrated in 1889. So valuable was the discovery considered in 183'J that the French Government presenDaguerre with £25,000 to induce him to make public the details of the art, which was then in a very infantile state. A person sitting for a photograph then had to sit motionless for six or ten minutes, and, as the eyes could not then be "taken," they had always to bo kept shut. Great as is the advance which the art has made since then, Mr. Mayall, of New Bond-street, the eminent photographer, has iust added a fresh invention to the art which is likely to be its crowning achievement. He has discovered a means of photographing in colours, which may soon make finely-coloured photographs cost only as many shillings as they have hitherto cost pounds when done by the hand process. And tho artistic merits of the new process are as wonderful as its rapidty and cheapness. The new camera does its work in colours almost instantaneously. A photograph which Mr. Mayall has taken by the new process, of Princess Christian, shows the perfect art with which it can reproduce one of the. finest and most expressive countenances. The colours by the new process are indestructible, and are as conspicuous in the folds and tints of a. lady's dress as in the colour of her eye or the beauty of her face.